OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of the tympanic membrane thermometer for use with pregnant women. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING A major medical center in the midwestern United States. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-three hospitalized, afebrile pregnant women. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Tympanic membrane thermometers and glass mercury thermometers were used to measure body temperatu...

Clinical glass thermometers This article will cover checking the temperature using a clinical glass thermometer which contains mercury. This is the most accurate and most commonly used thermometer. Digital thermometers are available but they require batteries which may not be readily available. WARNING: Mercury is toxic. If a thermometer breaks, put on gloves and use a tissue or a piece of clot...

We have investigated theoretically the effects of the charging energy to the normal metal–insulator–superconductor (NIS) tunnel junction used as a thermometer. We demonstrate by numerical calculations how the charging effects modify NIS thermometry, and how the voltage–to–temperature response and the responsivity |dV/dT | of a current biased thermometer are affected. In addition, we show that t...

Clinical glass thermometers This article will cover checking the temperature using a clinical glass thermometer which contains mercury. This is the most accurate and most commonly used thermometer. Digital thermometers are available but they require batteries which may not be readily available. WARNING: Mercury is toxic. If a thermometer breaks, put on gloves and use a tissue or a piece of clot...

Radiation therapy is a mandatory treatment tactic in almost 70 % of cancer patients, including those head and neck, accounting for about 15−20 %. The radiotherapy prescribing causes certain complications so its need increases the level anxiety stress, forms pessimistic perception prospects anticancer treatment. An additional stressor also myths radiation therapy, which can provoke refusal There...

Background. One of the most important psychosocial issues related to nursing profession is moral distress (MD), which has devastating effects on student performance as well patient care. The current study was conducted determine frequency, severity, rate, and causes MD in students. Methods. During this cross-sectional study, 86 samples were last year undergraduate students Kermanshah University...